Where is claudio ranieri

This season, he has led the Genoa-based club to a ninth-placed finish, beating Serie A champions Inter Milan, Champions League side Atalanta and former club Roma along the way. Ranieri most famously led Leicester to the unlikeliest of Premier League titles in , taking over a squad which narrowly escaped relegation the previous season and turning them into English champions. He was sacked in February with the Foxes one point above the relegation zone despite topping their Champions League group on their European debut.

News of Ranieri's departure from Sampdoria comes on the same day Leicester announced Premier League-winning captain Wes Morgan and left-back Christian Fuchs will leave the club at the end of the season. Play for free, entries by 4pm. Again, supporters were sad to see him go. At Sampdoria, as at Leicester, he set the side up in an old-fashioned system, that relied more on endeavour and efficiency than entertainment and excitement.

Samp ranked fifth in the division for long balls and fourth-bottom for possession but outperformed their expected goals by over five. Leicester were economical but effective and Ranieri will be hoping for much of the same at Vicarage Road. He knows full well what will happen if they are not. Ranieri is not concerned about the trigger-happy methods of his new employers as he targets Premier League survival.

The Italian, who turns 70 next week, has replaced Xisco Munoz at Vicarage Road after the Spaniard was sacked for picking up seven points from the opening seven games of the season. Xisco was the seventh manager at Vicarage Road to lose his job in less than five years, but Ranieri is not fazed by the environment he is coming into. Now I have to do my best for Watford. Watford are four points above the drop zone in the early part of the season, but Ranieri, who last worked in the Premier League with Fulham in , is only looking at survival.

The programme is very ambitious and I am ambitious and then I hope it will be fantastic for Watford and our fans. Do you remember me at Leicester? Forty points, 40 points, 40 points, 40 points we had to achieve. Then next season we will see if it can be The Italian departed the club at the end of his contract in the summer of Close Advert.

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